If you must have a trampoline don’t put it next to your neighbors Fence

[Poochandmutt]

I’m so bloody pissed of .we have a decking area in our garden with a roof ,it’s where we used to sit quietly to eat our meals on nice days.
The lovely neighbors behind us have backed their trampoline so it is actually shaking the fence as all the kids bounce and scream.
I’m sick of it .their garden 4 times the size of ours ,they didn’t need to put it next to our seating area..and they can clearly see it is our seating area.
They have been on it all day screaming.
I’ve 4 kids ,so yeah mine made noise ,blah blah blah ,but I wouldn’t of ever put a trampoline next to someone’s seating area.selfish

Unpleasant because my children have been asking for one and the only place to put on is against the fence?! That’s madness and extreme. It’s in my garden, should I not use that area at all then in case it upsets the neighbours?

Put a mirror in your conservatory at just the right place so they can enjoy the effects of their motion sensor light.

How high is the netting cage round it? They may have broken planning regulations height-wise. You aren't allowed to have play equipment higher than 2.5m within 2m of a boundary.

Throw a handful of birdseed onto it in the very early morning. The resultant bird shit will discourage their little darlings from playing on it (and you'll be helping wildlife . Win/Win)

Definitely get a sprinkler, park it by the fence and find a new love of loud rap, you know the "Mutha fucka I'm gonna blow a fuckin cap in ya bitch ass" kinda thing

Oh, good one, 70

Pumpkin, nobody is saying that you shouldn’t be able to use your garden. But it sounds like you have no consideration for your neighbours and are being really selfish. As long as you get what you want, you don’t care about the impact on your neighbours. Incredibly selfish behaviour.

This gives me the rage so much I can barely articulate my feelings! Every house we've lived in, the view over the neighbour's gardens has been of trampolines squished up against the neighbours' fences! Right now I can see four of the bloody things in surrounding gardens, all up against the fences. We had new neighbours move next door in March and first thing they did was put a massive trampoline right against the dividing fence - these are big gardens so plenty of other places for it to go but no, against our fence it had to be. I am waiting with glee for Autumn when the huge oak tree that's directly above it sheds its mountain of leaves and buries the sodding thing

You don’t know it will bother them though? You’re just assuming.
If my neighbours did it it wouldn’t bother me, a neighbour has a trampoline a few doors down in the same spot in her garden.

Start playing lovely music such as Rammstein. It’ll be very educational for the little darlings.

Make sure to include "Pussy" in the playlist

Grow some leylandii on your side?

And PumpkinP - how about you put your trampoline in the middle of your garden, away from all the fences??

And you’re assuming it won’t bother them.

Typical of those with these awful trampolines.

Children, as they are, tend to scream while bouncing. Not a lot can be done for this!

A hose/sprinkler, and plant something with allergic and itchy pollen to drift onto the troublesome area.

I have a trampoline at the bottom of the garden, near a fence but under a tree so my dc can't look over the neighbours fence. Not that they mind, their grandchildren are over all the time playing on the trampoline.
Tbh I think most of you are massively over reacting about a trampoline being near a fence but I think that most times I read anything on here.
Whose fence is it? If it is yours then you have every right to ask them to move it if it genuinely is making it shake.
I would definitely speak to them about the noise levels and the light too, I don't think they are u to play outside on the trampoline but they don't need to scream and it shouldn't be hard to sort the light out so it doesn't bother you as much.
I do hope you get it sorted, it is horrible feeling so frustrated.

Ugh, our new neighbours have a tiny garden and a MASSIVE trampoline. Kids bouncing on it until eleven at night until we shouted at them. Fuckers.

I have a moan too. My neighbours behind me have installed a light to deter ? Nightmares?. It is a Narnia type lamp post but is literally 2 stories tall and so bright we have nicknamed it “the eye of Sauron”

If this were America, I’d be a gun owner and shoot that light out every night until they got the hint.

If my neighbours did it it wouldn’t bother me,
Aye right!

Why can't your out the trampoline in the middle of your garden and not put right up to a neighbours fence?

It is a Narnia type lamp post but is literally 2 stories tall and so bright we have nicknamed it “the eye of Sauron”

Annoying neighbours who also have awful garden design taste too!

And here, in the wilderness, we can see the increasingly common bird, the selfishus arseholeus, start its song of it-is-all-about-me-me-me. With their little friend, I'malrightjack.

OP you have my sympathy. A power washer would be a worthwhile investment.

Most people buy there gardens with the intention of using them in a way that suits their family. You want to use yours as a dining room. They want to use there’s for the children to play in. You both own your land so can and should use it as you see fit. Why on earth would you expect them to buy a large plot and then have the kids play right next to the house?

YABVU

In our garden with a twelve foot trampoline and houses on each side it is likely to be next to one fence or another. We put it next to the fence where on the other side they have their trampoline.

Why on earth would you expect them to buy a large plot and then have the kids play right next to the house?

Because if the trampoline’s going to inconvenience anyone it should be the owners, not their neighbours?

But if they want to use their garden for their children to play in (which is absolutely fine), why not put their trampoline - for the children to play on - in the middle of the garden, away from the neighbouring fences?? Why always right up against a fence?!

@StoorieHoose
You don’t know the half of it. They have terrible taste. They did a patio in expensive Italian sand stone like idiots not understanding that sandstone is terrible outside in a damp country. Obviously it mildews within minutes so the man of the house is perpetually power washing it.
Their grass area is fake plastic lawn....and not looking so hot due to the above mentioned regular power washing.
They have a plant bedding alongside the house with woodchips and fake plastic trees that I think are supposed to mimic silver birches but the green is almost fluorescent (I get stupid plastic leaves blown into my garden all the time). Their house is a barn conversion clad in wood siding so it’s not very smart to have a wood chip bridge from earth to their house wall when there is such a thing as termites even here in England.
They have a fake dead tree thingy on their patio with fake green ivy on it (why?)
They too have a trampoline for their kids and yes it’s abutting our wall.
They have a hanging seat / sex swing thing that is like a parody of when IKEA bedroom taste moves outdoors for al fresco enjoyment.